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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
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RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10138
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DATE : 10/9/1963
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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,10/6/1963-10/14/63, CIA

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SUBJECT PLANS OF GOVERNMENT TO ASSASSINATE AMBASSADOR
TRI QUANG, AND BURN THE CHANCERY

DATE OF INFO. - 8 OCTOBER 1963
PLACE & DATE Aca. VIETNAM, SAIGON (OCTOBER 1963)
APPRISAL SEE BELOW —
REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/657,149
DATE DISTR. 9 OCTOBER 1963
PRECEDENCE PRIORITY
RIELD REPORT NO. FVS 9753 - ,

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE.
APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
SOURCE A NEDIUM LEVEL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL’ (C) WITH EXTENSIVE

CONTACTS AMONG GOVERNMENT LEADERS.

ITS REPRESENTATIVES. STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS, EITHER GVN-SPONSORED
OR INDEPENDENTLY ORGANIZED, MAY TAKE PLACE. THE OTHER ASPECTS

OF THIS REPORT ARE VIEWED WITH SKEPTICISM.

1. SUMMARY. ON 8 ‘OCTOBER 1963 NGUYEN DUY BACH, CHIEF OF THE
POLITICAL BUREAU, PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY SERVICE (SEPES), SAID THAT
GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM CGVN) AUGHORITIES WERE PLANNING TO ALLOW A
STUDENT DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY CHANCERY
UNDER COVER OF WHICH ABOUT-100 GVN AGENTS WOULD ATTACK THE EMBASSY
AND ASSASSINATE AMBASSADOR HENRY CABOT LODGE AND OTHER HIGH-RANKING
EMBASSY OFFICIALS AFTER WHICH THE CHANCERY WOULD BE SET AFIRE.
2. ON 8 OCTOBER 1963 BACH SAID THAT EARLIER ON THE SAME DAY

‘A DELEGATION OF STUDENTS HAD INFORMED HIM THAT THEY WERE ORGANIZING
A DEMONSTRATION WHICH THEY. HOPED WOULD TAKE PLACE IN FRONT OF THE
AMERICAN EMBASSY CHANCERY WITHIN "THE NEXT FEW DAYS" DURING OFFICE
HOURS AND PROBABLY IN THE MORNING. THE STUDENTS PLANNED TO PRESENT
A STATEMENT TO AMBASSADOR LODGE PROTESTING THE REPRESSION OF
STUDENTS AND OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE GVN. (FIELD COMMENT.
FVS-9749, (NOT YET RECEIVED), FROM A FAIRLY RELIABLE SOURCE,
REPORTED THE’ARREST OF 130 SAIGON STUDENTS ON THE NIGHT OF 7 OCTOBER
BY SPECIAL POLICE.) THE STUDENTS ALSO TOLD BACK CAND BACH SAID
THAT HE HAD CONFIRMATION: FROM OTHER UNIDENTIFIED SOURCES) THAT

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UF EMBASSY FUR PULIVICAL AFFALKS MELVIN Le. MANF ULL, AND SrEULAL
ASSISTANTS MESSRS. FREDERICK W. FLOTT AND JOHN M. DUNN, AS WELL
AS THICH TRI QUANG, BUDDHIST LEADER CURRENTLY LIVING IN THE CHANCERY.
THE GVN AGENTSWOULD THEN BURN THE CHANCERY. |

3. BACH REMARKED THAT NORMALLY THE GVN PERNITTED NO DEMON-
STRATIONS BUT, BECAUSE OF THE PLANNED INFILTRATION OF GVN AGENTS,
THE.GVN WOULD ALLOW THIS PARTICULAR (PORTION GARBLED - BEING
SERVICED) (X) DEMONSTRATION BUT THEY WERE CONFIDENT THAT THEY COULD
CONTROL THE SITUATION. .

4. (FIELD COMMENT. AN UNTESTED SOURCE REPORTED ON 8 OCTOBER
THAT A NUMBER OF POLICE WERE GOING TO MASQUERADE AS STUDENTS
AND DEMONSTRATE IN FRONT OF THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE
BUILDING. > . |

5. FIELD DISSEM. STATE CAMBASSADOR LODGE), USMACV (GENERAL

HARKINS), CINCPAC PACAF ARPAC PACFLT. .

6. (KX) HEADQUARTERS COMMENTAC MISSING PORTION WILL BE DIS-
SEMINATED ONLY IF ‘IT WATERIALLY AFFECTS THE SENSE OF THIS REPORT.

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